About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Saturday, January 13, 2007

January 13......

January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 352 (353 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

It is still celebrated as New Year's Eve by those on the Julian calendar (Old New Year).

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

● 1501 - The world's first hymnbook printed in the vernacular was published in Prague. It contained 89 hymns in the Czech language. (The name of the hymnal is no longer known, since the only surviving copy lacks the title page.)

● 1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey sentenced to death.

● 1559 - Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey.

● 1602 - William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is published.

● 1605 - The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.

● 1607 - Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.

● 1622 - Work on the printing of the First Folio of William Shakespeare is suspended.

● 1625 - John Milton is admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge at the age of 16.

● 1630 - Patent to Plymouth Colony issued

● 1635 - Birth of Philip Jacob Spener, founder of German pietism. The name for the Bible studies (called "collegia pietatis") held in his home came to be associated with his followers, who were afterward called Pietists.

● 1691 - Death of George Fox, 67, English founder of the Society of Friends (Quakers). Fox left the Anglican church at 23 and founded the Quaker movement in 1660 at age 36.

● 1695 - Jonathan Swift ordained an Anglican priest in Ireland

● 1733 - James Oglethorpe and 130 colonists arrive in Charleston, South Carolina.

● 1832 - President Andrew Jackson writes Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.

● 1840 - The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.

● 1842 - On this day Dr.William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, became famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reached the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.

● 1847 - The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.

● 1849 - Vancouver Island granted to Hudson's Bay Co

● 1854 - Anthony Faas of Philadelphia, PA, patented the accordion.

● 1863 - Chenille manufacturing machine patented by William Canter, New York City NY

● 1874 - As unemployed workers demonstrate in New York City's Tompkins Square Park, mounted police officers charge into the crowd, indiscriminately clubbing adults and children, leaving hundreds of casualties. Police commissioner Abram Duryee boasts, (quote) - "It was the most glorious sight I have ever seen..." Except for the 1930s, the U.S. never knew a more serious economic catastrophe than the depression of 1873 to 1877. The four years left three million workers unemployed. Those with jobs face wage cuts, while the jobless go hungry. In the winter of 1873, 900 people starved to death, and 3,000 deserted their infants on doorsteps. Today's Tompkins Square Park demonstration is part of a wave of unemployed parades and bread riots across the nation. In Chicago, 20,000 people march. Even under police attack, workers in New York, Omaha, and Cincinnati refuse to disperse.

● 1874 - US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king

● 1883 - Fire in circus Ferroni in Berditschoft Poland kills 430

● 1888 - National Geographic Society founded (Washington DC)

● 1893 - The Independent Labour Party of the UK has its first meeting, with Keir Hardie as its leader.

● 1893 - US Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.

● 1894 - Insurrection in Lunigiana, Italy as anarchists bands arm themselves in support of Sicilian victims of the State of Siege (beginning of January to repress the revolts against increased flour prices.) A military tribunal will condemn Luigi Molinari to 23 years imprisonment as the instigator of the insurrection. Following a movement of protest, Molinari was amnestied 20 months later.

● 1898 - Novelist Emile Zola blows the lid off rampant French anti-Semitism and a military cover up in the Dreyfus Affair with publication of "J'accuse!" Dreyfus was a Jewish army captain accused of spying and causing the loss of the war of 1870 with Germany. "J'accuse!" was written in a feverish two days, following the acquittal of the real culprit -- after three minutes deliberation. Published in an edition of 300,000 -- 10 times his publisher's normal printing -- it sold out within days. Zola accused the military of seeking scapegoats, and he galvanized public opinion in favor of Dreyfus. French anti-Semitism later culminated in the Vichy regime's persecution and deportation of 76,000 Jews from France between 1941-1944. Only 2,500 survived.

● 1898 - Birth of Kaj Munk. Danish playwright and priest, whose outspoken sermons and plays during World War II led to his murder. Believing the truths of Christianity can be realized only in action, his plays appealed to Danes to resist the occupiers. On January 4, 1944, Munk was taken from his home by the Gestapo and shot.

● 1900 - In Austria-Hungary, Emperor Franz Joseph decreed that German would be the language of the imperial army to combat Czech nationalism.

● 1902 - Textile workers strike in Enschede Netherlands till June 1

● 1906 - 1st radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile

● 1908 - French pilot Henry Farman is 1st European to fly roundtrip

● 1910 - Opera was broadcast on the radio for the first time — Enrico Caruso singing from the stage of New York's Metropolitan Opera House.

● 1911 - Roald Amundsens anchors at Walvis Bay

● 1912 - -40ºF (-40ºC), Oakland MD (state record)

● 1915 - W Churchill presents plan for assault on Dardanelles

● 1915 - An Earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.

● 1919 - Chicano citrus workers strike in Covina, CA.

● 1920 - New York Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly

● 1971 - Arrest of Pepe Beunza, first of many political conscientious objectors imprisoned in Spain.

● 1972 - New York rules a woman may become a professional baseball umpire.

● 1972 - Prime Minister Kofi Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Col. Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong.

● 1974 - A Gallup poll on religious worship showed that fewer Protestants and Roman Catholics were attending weekly services than ten years earlier, but that attendance at Jewish worship services had increased over the same period.

● 1978 - Former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey died in Waverly, Minn., at age 66.

● 1979 - YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song

● 1980 - Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium

● 1986 - "The Wall Street Journal" printed a real picture on its front page. The journal had not done this in nearly 10 years. The story was about artist, O. Winston Link and featured one of his works.

● 1989 - Bernhard H. Goetz was sentenced to one year in prison for possession of an unlicensed gun that he used to shoot four youths he claimed were about to rob him. He was freed the following September.

● 1990 - L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.

● 1991 - Soviet Union military troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius. Bloodshed at Lithuanian TV station; Around 13 people are killed and at least 140 injured as Soviet troops continue to attack Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.

● 1992 - Japan apologized for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II. {Gee it only took over 45 years.}

● 1992 - Wisconsin serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer enters a plea of guilty but insane in 15 of the 17 murders he confessed to committing. Over a 13-year period beginning in 1982, Dahmer murdered at least 17 men and boys. Most victims were young, gay African Americans, who he lured to his home, promising to pay them money to pose for nude photographs. He then drugged and strangled them, often mutilating, and occasionally cannibalizing, their bodies afterwards. Dahmer was beaten to death by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver while performing cleaning duty in a bathroom at the Columbia Correctional Institute gymnasium in Portage, Wisconsin. Scarver, a convicted murderer, also fatally beat the third man on their work detail, inmate Jesse Anderson, who was serving a life sentence for brutally killing his wife. Scarver's motive in killing the two men was not entirely clear; however, in his subsequent criminal trial he maintained that God told him to kill them both.

● 1993 - Allies bomb Iraq; American, British and French fighter jets carry out a series of bombing raids over southern Iraq.

● 2002 - The exhibit "In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." opened at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. More than 100 artists supplied the collection of 120 works of art.

● 2002 - Japan and Singapore signed a free trade pact that would remove tariffs on almost all goods traded between the two countries.

● 2002 - U.S. President George W. Bush fainted after choking on a pretzel.

● 2004 - Serial killer Shipman found hanged; Harold Shipman, who is believed to have killed more than 200 patients, is found hanged in his prison cell.

● 1988 - Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)

● 1993 - Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer (b. 1907)

● 2001 - Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1985)

● 2002 - Ted Demme, American film director (b. 1963)

● 2002 - Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (b. 1916)

● 2003 - Norman Panama, American screenwriter and director (b. 1914)

● 2004 - Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountain climber (b. 1937)

● 2004 - Harold Shipman, British serial killer (b. 1946)

● 2005 - Earl Cameron, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1915)

● 2005 - Nell Rankin, American mezzo-soprano (b. 1924)

● 2006 - Frank Fixaris, American sportscaster (b. 1934)

● 2006 - Marc Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)

● 2007 - Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1949)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:● St. Hilary of Poitiers● St. Elian● St. Agrecius● St. Andrew of Trier● St. Viventius● St. Enogatus● St. Erbin● St. Glaphyra● St. Gumesindus● St. Hermylus● St. Kentigern Mungo● St. Leontius of Cuesaren● Bl. Yvette

● Old Roman Catholic:● Baptism of Jesus

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 31 (Civil Date: January 13)● Apodosis of the Nativity of Christ.● St. Melania the Younger, nun of Rome.● St. Gelasius, monk of Palestine.● St. Gaius, monk.● St. Theophylactus of Ochrid.

● In Sweden, Christmas ends on the 20th day, St. Knut's Day. Children celebrate a party throwing out the Christmas tree (julgransplundring).

● In Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, in various Russophone communities, and in the Republic of Macedonia the Old New Year is celebrated (the New Year by the Old Style calendar) on the night of January 13/14.

● In UK, as proposed by comedian Bob Mills on BBC Radio 5 Live's Fighting Talk this is the day beyond which the penalty for wishing someone a Happy New Year should be death.

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